FLOWER    花兒華

SMALL PLANT which HAS BLOSSOMS as the MOST IMPORTANT PART.
Old Chinese Criteria
huang We need a good survey of the GENERAL terminology of flowers here.
Modern Chinese Criteria
花兒 花朵 rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／
Hyponym
  • FLOWERS　CATEGORIES of FLOWERS (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
  • ROSE　COMMON FLOWER []. (anc: 7/0, child: 0)
Part of
Hypernym
  • PLANT　CREATURE that CAN NOT VOLUTARILY MOVE. (anc: 5/0, child: 11)
  • CREATURE　LIVING THING. (anc: 4/0, child: 3)
  • THING　CONCRETE OBJECT. (anc: 3/0, child: 10)
  • A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages ( BUCK 1988) p. 8.57

  • Tolkovo-kombinatornyj slovar' sovremmenogo russkogo jazyka. Explanatory Combinatorial Dictionary of Modern Russian ( Mel'cuk 1984) p. 940

  • Dictionnaire culturel en langue francaise ( REY 2005) p. 2.1049

  • 中國文化史三百題 ( SANBAITI 1987) p. 203

  • 王力古漢語字典 ( WANG LI 2000) p. 1126

    蘤，花，華，葩

  • 中國文化背景八千詞 Zhongguo wenhua beijing ba qian ci ( WU SANXING 2008) p. 350ff

  • Encyclopedia of Religion ( JONES 2005) p.

  • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 73

  • 古漢語常用詞同義詞詞典 ( HONG CHENGYU 2009) p. 190

  • A New Dictionary of Classical Greek Synonyms ( T.W.HARBSMEIER 2004) p. NO.73

    • Words (6 items)

    華  huā MC: hwae OC: qhʷraal 8 Attributions

    really always on bushes and trees?????

      Syntactic words
    • npluralflowers
    • npost-Npluralflowers of NDS
    蕤  ruí MC: nywij OC: njul 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • nabfigurativefeature: flowering; flourishingCH
    天華  tiān huā OC: lʰiin qhʷraal MC: then hɣɛ 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • NPDCD: 天花 1.亦作天華。佛教語。天界仙花。
    秀  xiù 1 Attribution
      Syntactic words
    • npoetic: beautiful flowerCH
    寶華  bǎo huá OC: puuʔ ɢʷraal MC: pɑu ɦɣɛ 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • NPjewelled flowers
      Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabfigurativefeature: flowering; flourishingCH